22 Castle Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2BY

22 Castle Street, Newry

This is one of a terrace of three three-storey town houses (with basement and attic) in the early Georgian classical style, located on the east side of Castle Street. This building occupies the right end of the terrace and is two bays wide. Its composition suggests it was erected as a single unit with the neighbouring property at no. 20.

The roof is gabled natural slate with a cast iron skylight to the front pitch and a rendered chimney at the right. The right gable features projecting eaves and a bargeboard. The façade has concealed gutters with a metal downpipe at right. The street-facing walls are constructed of strap-pointed random granite rubble with a moulded granite eaves course.

At ground floor level, the left opening contains a modern painted tongue-and-groove sheeted door with a plain transom above. To the right is a 6/6 sliding sash window with horns. Two identical windows occupy each upper floor, positioned in line with the openings below. All windows have painted granite cills and rendered reveals; those at the top floor are diminished in height. The windows are appropriate replacements but not original. The front features a modern decorative metal railing on a strap-pointed random rubble plinth. The gate at left is flanked by squared granite block pillars with concrete caps. Two steps lead from the street to a geometric tiled path serving the front door. To the left of this path is a matching railing, separating it from the coach arch approach. The left gable forms a party wall with the adjacent property. The right gable is wet dashed and has no openings, with overhanging boxed eaves.

The rear walls mirror the front elevation. A three-storey gabled return abuts the left bay. The ground floor of the rear elevation was not inspected, though a coach arch is expected at ground floor right. At first floor right is an exposed box 6/6 sliding sash window, and at second floor is a similar 6/3 window (it is uncertain whether this window belongs to this property or to no. 20). Neither has a cill, and the top window is diminished in height. The return has a gabled artificial slate roof with a rendered chimney rising from the wall head of its left cheek. Rainwater goods are half-round metal. The left cheek walls are wet dashed. The right cheek at ground floor was not inspected. At first floor centre and left are two 6/6 sliding sashes. At right, where the return meets the rear elevation, is a timber-sheeted lean-to with a mono-pitched roof and no windows. It is uncertain whether this rests on a ground floor structure or cantilevers out. At second floor are three diminished-height 6/3 sashes, all in line with the first floor openings. All windows to this elevation have shallow segmental brick heads or arches over them but no cills.

The rear gable is random rubble with a small casement window to the gable at right. A second return abuts this gable. The second return has a gabled natural slate roof, half-round metal rainwater goods, and wet-dashed walls. Its left wall is in line with the left wall of the first return. The right wall at ground floor was not inspected. A 1/1 sliding sash window occupies the first and second floors; the top one is diminished in height. Both windows have segmental brick heads but no cills. The gable of this return is abutted by a further outbuilding which has been much altered and is of no architectural interest.